This is a post in a series to appear occasionally, setting out some articles that contributors at Slaw are reading and that you might find interesting. These tend to be longer than blog posts and shorter than books, just right for that stolen half hour on the weekend. It’s also likely that most of them won’t be about law — just right for etc.

London Review of Books – Swing for the Fences – David Runciman – Why do sports teams do so well in home games?

New Library World – Electronic books: a call for effective business models [abstract only] – Rebecca Schroeder and Tom Wright – Libraries have typically purchased materials “just in case”. Ebooks may prove to be a game-changer, because it is now very simple to buy “just in time”. Unfortunately, there are lots of business and licensing issues to be resolved before this can take place.

Bloomberg Businessweek – Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race – Michael Riley and Ashlee Vance – The Pentagon, the IMF, Google, and others have been hacked. It’s war out there, and a cyber-weapons industry is exploding to arm the combatants.